I am married to the most wonderful man who I've known more years than I have not! We recently celebrated our 41 years of marriage.Our oldest son is our business partner. We farm in Mexico, growing papaya, honeydew and person-size watermelon. We travel back and forth to Mexico to take care of our business. This son is married and has two children. He lives in Mexico to oversee the business.Our middle son works for Clinical Pathology Lab. His wife is a doctor and recently opened her cosmetic dermatology clinic in Houston.Our youngest son is a realtor in McAllen, Texas, near where we live. He loves his work and his business is steadily growing.We lived in Mexico for three years to get our farming operation going. It was an exciting time for us!My hobbies are genealogy, home decorating and cooking. I love blogging!I am so very blessed to have a loving family... not only the family my husband and I created, but also my family of friends.Fall and winter months are when I enjoy blogging the most. Seasons change and I love keeping up with the change in my home.I have had some amazing experiences with my faith in Christ and I truly feel that God is always with me. I try to live my life the way God would have me live it.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The book was published in 1957. My sister and I had already prepared many of the recipes in this book by the time my youngest brother was born.. and that was in 1962. This cookbook was used so often (and still is!) and is now stored in a plastic bag (a no-no for vintage items) because it is in pieces.

I love to look at the page where my mother had made a list of meals and the order of preparation for my sister and me so that when my mother was in the hospital having my brother, our family would still have meals on the table.

Heaven forbid that we have to eat out. In my childhood eating out was a rarity.

I still use the gingerbread recipe in this book and my brothers and even my sons all consider Saucy Hamburger Crumble to be the ultimate in comfort food.

Time passes... and life goes on... Sunday, October 23rd I had my parents on my mind. It had been three years since my father had passed away and my mother just four months before him.

I was with my friend, Sherry, and we were having so much fun shopping in Wimberly, Texas. We wandered through Kiss the Cook, a fabulous store loaded with cooking all sorts of cooking utensils and cookbooks. So much fun!!

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It had been laying heavy on my heart that I had not received a "sign" from my parents in some time. On that particular day it was actually nagging at me. Some little something that would only be understood by my parents and me.

As I enjoyed looking through the cookbooks I looked up and suddenly saw THE cookbook. It was the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls! One single copy and on a little stand. No way to miss it. It's been republished.. is that a word??

It was the sign!!

My new cookbook!!

I whipped that cookbook off the shelf and there could not be any purchase that I will make for a very long time that will hold a candle to this cookbook.

I love your story! I have both the original and the republished version of this little cookbook. I got the reublished one first than sometime later spotted the origial at a yard sale for .50. You bet I grabbed that!

Hi Karen, I love the picture of your parents! I also found one of these cookbooks lately. It brought back many memories. I wanted to invite you over to my blog. I have a fun vintage holiday project that you might like. Also a giveaway to celebrate my first magazine article. Stop by if you can. thanks, Cindy